HD Install :: Toshiba Libretto - have Floppy and CDrom



This SHOULD be a slam-dunk if I know where to start and how to get to the end  :p

I have my old Libretto CT110.  64Mb memory and 4Gb hard drive.

I have a bootable PCMCIA floppy that came with the Libretto; it MUST go in PCMCIA slot 1.

I have a Toshiba PCMCIA CDROM that **can** go in PCMCIA slot 2.

I have a PCMCIA card with 4 USB 2.0 ports that MUST go into PCMCIA slot 1.  I have a DVD/CD USB drive and other USB devices (like Bluetooth and pen drives).

I have PCMCIA wireless and ethernet cards that **can** go into PCMCIA slot 2.

Of course the Libretto CT110 has the wonderful 7" weird sized screen.

So this SHOULD be easy, where do I start?  Frugal or HD install?

Floppy and CDROM in place, Boot off of floppy and continue install from CDrom onto HD?  will the Floppy install diskette recognize the PCMCIA CDrom?

Then after the intial install, boot with the USB PCMCIA card in slot 1 and the CDrom still in slot 2 and then install what to get the USB working?

Then switch to the USB DVD/CDrom and the ethernet card in slot 2 and install what?  (and then madwifi for my dlink atheros card).

And of course config the video to support the LCD and the external VGA port.

There has GOT to be a cookbook for all of this, right?   :D

I would LOVE to start doing things on my good, old Libretto.  My first machine when I started working my current job back in '98.  And remote terminal from it into a decTOP (Geode GX500, 256 or 512Mb memory, a CF IDE drive for DSL and a CF micro drive IDE for data) for 'real work'.
Well, you have some booting and swapping pcmcia cards to do..

I'd boot the floppy & pcmcia cd with "dsl 2 nousb nofirewire vga=808 nodhcp"
vga=808 is 800x480x24 which is the best Librettos can usually do..
If the pcmcia cd is recognized, you get an shell. If not, there are some codes for pcmcia cdroms in the wiki..
From there make & format your partitions, then start "dsl-hdinstall"

For your comp I'd go with traditional HD install, it runs faster.

After that you think it's more complicated than it is. No need to install anything to get usb or madwifi work.
Just plug in the usb pc-card and that wireless one..
I had only one 16bit slot so I just moved the hard drive to a Dell CS (Still need to put this back together) and used the boot code install twice: First to use cfdisk to make my primary and swap, and then secondly to install. After it tells you to reboot after removing the disk to complete the installation, just turn your computer off when it reboots and switch the drives.
It was the same with my L100.
Have the floppy and several PCMCIA CD drives but couldn´t boot DSL.
So I swapped HD into another laptop and after installation - before rebooting - swapped it back.
Andreas,

I see you have listed a Vaio C1VN?
Is this the picturebook with motion eye?
If so, the motion eye works out of the box with DSL!
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